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The just-released Defence Capability Plan is the most comprehensive argument for investment in Defence in modern times, writes Editor-at-large Dr Peter Greener, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies (VUW).
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Read more: Defence Capability Plan 2019 – Climate change, concurrency and complementarity
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2019/07/09/defence-capability-plan-2019/
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Soldiers from 1-27 Infantry Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, get on line to provide security as part of Phantom Major, a major annual training exercise for the New Zealand Armed Forces.
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Read more: Exercise Phantom Major 19
- Article: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5808543/25th-id-soldiers-train-exercise-phantom-major-19
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New Zealand’s Defence capability plan 2019 (DCP ’19), released last week, lays out ways to spend the NZ$20 billion pledged to defence by the coalition government early in its tenure. It clearly knits together future purchases and expenditure with the policy priorities set out in the preceding Strategic defence policy statement 2018 (SDPS). For the most part, DCP ’19 is a compelling document, but some questions remain.
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Read more: Capable for what? New Zealand’s 2019 defence capability plan
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/capable-for-what-new-zealands-2019-defence-capability-plan/
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I’ve just got back from Wellington, where ASPI was involved in Australia-New Zealand defence cooperation and policy discussions. As usual, we were hosted admirably by our Kiwi colleagues and the cultural and historical affinities between the two countries made for easy discussions.
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Read more: NZ defence capability: running to stand still
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/nz-defence-capability-running-to-stand-still/
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This is an older article thought would be a good read, to see and compare where we are today with the NZDF.
New Zealand’s Largest Navy Ship Christened in South Korea
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Read more: NZ's Largest Navy Ship Christened in South Korea
- Article: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1910/S00644/nzs-largest-navy-ship-christened-in-south-korea.htm
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WATCH || Take a tour around No. 3 Squadron's Rotary Wing Task Unit at Dip Flat, one of our field training facilities.
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Read more: Take a tour: Rotary Wing Task Unit
- Article: https://www.facebook.com/NZAirForce/videos/2831172420228245/
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NEWS || “I name this ship.” Just five months after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern named the @Royal New Zealand Navy's replacement diving support and hydrographic vessel #HMNZSManawanui, The Governor-General of New Zealand Dame Patsy Reddy was able to do likewise for the new sustainment vessel, Aotearoa.
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Read more: New Zealand’s largest Navy ship christened in South Korea
- Article: https://medium.com/@nzdefenceforce/new-zealands-largest-navy-ship-christened-in-south-korea-46243318eb3
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LORIENT, France – The first steel cut has been made for the new French FDI (defense and intervention) frigate, the Admiral Ronarc’h-class, which will be known on the export market as the Belh@arra.
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Read more: Naval Group starts construction on France’s newest frigate
- Article: http://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2019/10/25/naval-group-starts-construction-on-frances-newest-frigate/
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